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General Social Survey, 1972 (ICPSR 7309)

Principal Investigator(s):Davis, James A.

Summary:

In addition to the standard personal characteristic items,
the survey covers items viewed by the NORC staff and an advisory panel
of sociologists as "mainstream" interests of modern academic
sociology. The interview covers the areas of stratification, the
family, race relations, social control, civil liberties, and morale. A
major objective of the project was the replication of questions which
have appeared in previous national surveys. The data were collected by
the Nati... (more info)

In addition to the standard personal characteristic items,
the survey covers items viewed by the NORC staff and an advisory panel
of sociologists as "mainstream" interests of modern academic
sociology. The interview covers the areas of stratification, the
family, race relations, social control, civil liberties, and morale. A
major objective of the project was the replication of questions which
have appeared in previous national surveys. The data were collected by
the National Opinion Research Center as the first in a five year series
of general social surveys. The survey was administered in
February-April 1972 to a national cross-section sample of adults 18
years of age and older. The data were obtained from the Roper Center
for Public Opinion Research.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

Davis, James A. GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY, 1972. Conducted by National Opinion Research Center. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1973. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07309.v1

Universe:
English-speaking persons 18 years of age or over, living in
noninstitutional arrangements within the United States.

Data Types:
survey data

Methodology

Sample:
National probability sampling design.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: